European nations with access to the Atlantic, and especially by those nations that engaged in colonialism and long distance …. Atlantic trade and colonialism affected Europe both directly, and indirectly by inducing institutional changes. In particular …

We show that much of Africa's recent growth and poverty reduction can be traced to a substantive decline in the share …

As Africa's role on the global stage is rising, so does the need to understand the shadow of history on the continent …'s economy and polity. We discuss recent works that shed light on Africa's colonial and precolonial legacies. The emerging corpus … Africa's post-independence maladies, we first review works that uncover the lasting legacies of colonial investments in …

We investigate the historical origins of mistrust within Africa. Combining contemporary household survey data with …

Africa and Latin America secured their independence from European colonial rule a century and half apart: most of Latin … America after 1820 and most of Africa after 1960. Despite the distance in time and space, they share important similarities … about a half-century (lost decades). The parallels suggest that Africa might be exiting from a period of post …